Junio C Hamano wrote:
Bert Douglas <bertd@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I am new to git, so probably doing something wrong.
Hope somebody can enlighten me.
Here is what happened so far.
Followed instructions here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/cvs-migration.html
Did command like this:
$ git cvsimport -C <destination> <module>
This was done from top level of existing cvs working directory.
Destination was new empty directory, outside the cvs tree.
It worked for several hours and seemed to complete ok.
I can look at history in destination git directory with gitk and git log.
All the stuff in ".git" looks normal, as far as I can tell.
But I have no files in the working directory.
When I do command:
$git checkout master
I get a bunch of lines to console with "D" in front.
Btw, what does that mean? Nothing about it in "man git-checkout" or elsewhere that I can find.
Then it says -- Already on branch "master"
But working directory is still empty.
Have you tried "git checkout -f" after that? With recent enough
git, "git cvsimport -C <destination> <module>" from the top
level of existing cvs working directory, with nonexistent
destination directory (that is, you let "git cvsimport -C" to
create that destination directory) would run "git checkout -f"
for you.
Somehow I missed that option.
That worked. Very fast. Thanks.
Am I going to have to do "-f" a lot?
How will I know when to do it?
Why not do it all the time?
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